Felix Eboue

Felix Eboue (1 January 1884-17 March 1944) was a French colonial administrator during World War II, during which he served as the pro-Free French governor of Chad.

Biography
Felix Eboue was born in Cayenne, French Guiana in 1884, the grandson of African slaves. Eboue was educatedin Paris and in 1908 was sent to Ubangi Shari (now the Central African Republic), where he served in the French colonial service. He was appointed acting governor of Martinique in 1932, governor of Guadeloupe in 1936, and Governor of Chad in 1938. In World War Ii he supported the Free French and was appointed by Charles de Gaulle Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa. He died of a heart attack in Cairo, Egypt in 1944, and he became the first black person to be interred in the Pantheon in Paris.